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...first, the Administration's instinct was to treat De Gaulle on a tit-for-tat basis, trading insult for insult, injury for injury. That instinct was quickly and wisely restrained...
...foolproof, fail-safe machines is on the fritz. Thermonuclear war is about to start by mistake. The President of the U.S. calls Khrushchev on the hot line to Moscow. To convince Khrush that the U.S. intended no aggressive action, he promises to order New York City obliterated, tit for tat. Khrush is agreeable. Moscow goes boom. New York goes boom-and with it the President's lovely wife, who happens to be visiting there. But peace-such as it is-is preserved...
Divorce-Italian Style. A murderously funny study of what happens when a marriage breaks up in Italy-it doesn't go pffft!, it goes rat-tat-tat. Marcello Mastroianni is hilarious as the husband, a tin-typical Sicilian smoothie...
Divorce-Italian Style. A murderously funny study of what happens when a marriage breaks up in Italy-it doesn't go pffft!, it goes rat-tat-tat. Marcello Mastroianni is hilarious as the husband, a tintypical Sicilian smoothie...
Lashing out at what he called "sly and ill-founded whisperings'' that there is the danger of a military-industrial alliance in the U.S. that could lead to "a coup d'état by the leaders of our armed forces," Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater, 53, himself a one-star general in the Air Force Reserve, told the Senate that he was a great deal more worried about civilians messing around in military matters. "I am more concerned," he said, "over a civilian like Adlai Stevenson telling the United Nations that we are prepared to take 'risks...